Chapter 3046 Outlook

At the Mumbai Hilton Hotel, Lao Ma was smiling and a little drunk, and said to Owen who opened the door for him, "Hi, thank you!"

"You're welcome," Owen responded in standard Mandarin.

"Haha, you are quite relaxed here," Lao Ma looked at Feng Yiping sitting by the window, his eyes still rolling.

"Stop looking for it, go to sleep." Feng Yiping picked up the teapot. There was the best black tea in India. "Have a cup."

"You'll know as soon as you hear it, you won't drink less with Lao Xiong,"

I don’t know what happened, but after drinking with Xiong Yuliang, many people would unknowingly start talking in Northeastern dialect.

Lao Ma smiled and said, "Hey, you are in a good mood. Besides, when we do projects, we must be on par with world-class companies. Drinking, of course, with masters like Lao Xiong,"

He drank the cup of tea in one gulp like a cow chewing peonies, and looked around again, "Really asleep? That's good, I'm afraid it will disturb you,"

Feng Yiping looked left and right, but he couldn't see any sign of this guy being afraid of disturbing him.

"Everyone is very excited and very confident," Lao Ma described the following state.

Feng Yiping nodded, "I understand."

Lao Ma buried himself on the sofa again, "Yes, I can understand."

After all, India is the single market with the greatest potential after our country.

Regarding India, think tanks have provided Feng Yiping with multiple reports. One of the most critical data is population. They generally believe that India will surpass us around 2025.

By then, India's total population will exceed 1.4 billion, of which more than 500 million will be urban residents.

How many opportunities does a market with such a population size contain?

What's even more rare is that this is a market that lags behind us in the development of related industries, and it is a rare market where we have many advantages, including technology.

As far as the high-tech field represented by IT is concerned, although India has an advantage over us in some aspects of this field, for example, India’s current share of the global outsourcing market is close to 50%, totaling With a scale approaching US$100 billion, it is the undisputed leader in the global outsourcing industry.

In this industry, although we have experienced rapid growth in recent years, generally speaking, at least in this field, we can only be regarded as a follower, a follower of India.

Fortunately, in the IT field, India only has an advantage over us in this aspect. In other words, this fully represents the different strategies of India and us. In the IT field, India has a comprehensive export-oriented development strategy.

Their outsourcing has ranked first in the world, but unfortunately, in other aspects, whether it was the portal website at the beginning or the social e-commerce and other fields later, local Indian companies did not do much.

In these aspects, our advantages can be said to be leading in the world.

Developing in such a market is psychologically easier than developing in Europe and the United States. Just like the development of the domestic Internet industry, most of them directly copy the models of European and American companies. India is a good place that can copy our domestic development model. place.

"But I feel that the days to come will not be easy," Lao Ma said. "It can be seen that all multinational companies know the importance of the Indian market."

Feng Yiping nodded, "That's natural. In terms of market sense, European and American companies are only more sensitive than us."

From a global perspective, the only countries with more than 250 million Internet users are the United States, China and India. The number of users in Brazil, Japan and Russia, which are in the second tier, has not reached 150 million.

Although the number of Internet users in our country currently far exceeds that of other countries in the world and is growing rapidly every year, overall, we are getting closer and closer to the critical point, that is, when penetration reaches saturation.

But looking at India, because the current Internet penetration rate is low, it will be the country with the largest increase in Internet users in the world for a long time to come.

In this regard, Feng Yiping also received several reports.

Judging from the development experience in Europe, the United States and my country, generally speaking, the Internet penetration rate in rural areas will always be at a low level. Therefore, it can be roughly said that the final number of Internet users in a country will slightly exceed the urban population. quantity.

But considering that 50% of India's rural population is distributed in rural areas near cities, they believe that when India's total population exceeds ours in the future, conservative estimates will see the number of Internet users in India reach about 600 million.

However, Feng Yiping believes that this data is still a bit low. This data does not take into account the popularity of cheap smartphones in India in the future.

If this situation is taken into account, it is not impossible that India will have 800 million Internet users by then - although due to income reasons, some of these users will not provide much help to the income of Internet companies.

But in any case, it is very likely that the total number of Internet users in India will exceed the total population of Europe in the future.

Generally speaking, India is a very open country in this regard, so all the world's high-tech Internet companies have already gathered in India, and competition will of course be fierce.

"That's why we have to seize the opportunity, establish our advantages in many aspects, and achieve results as soon as possible," Feng Yiping said.

This is also the main reason why he has invested so much in India recently and launched such a large publicity offensive.

"There is also Southeast Asia," he looked at Lao Ma and said seriously, "this is also a market that cannot be ignored,"

Lao Ma immediately said, "Indonesia, Indonesia, we will develop well,"

He thought for a while and poured a cup of tea for Feng Yiping. "Haha, that's a place beyond my expectation."

Indonesia is their next stop, where they will meet Mayer, Zuckerberg and others.

Because of his outstanding performance during the tsunami that year, Xiao Zha's image was very good in Indonesia. Probably because of this reason, Indonesia has become Facebook's second most important market in Asia.

The total number of Facebook users in Indonesia, currently second only to India in Asia, has exceeded the 60 million mark, and the growth rate is equally astonishing.

According to current trends, in the next five years, the total number of Facebook users in Indonesia will definitely exceed 100 million.

Optimistic estimates suggest that by then, this number will most likely be half of the total population of Indonesia, or even more. That is, the total number of Facebook users in Indonesia will also likely exceed 150 million.

This means that Indonesia, a country that is easy to ignore in many aspects, will very likely become the country with the third largest number of Facebook users in the world after the United States and India. From the current data, the South American country ranks third Brazil is a strong contender for this position.

But no matter what, it will definitely not be able to escape its fourth position in the world.

In Indonesia, their problem is how to rely on Facebook's good situation to drive the development of other projects, such as e-commerce and Twitter.

Feng Yiping picked up the tea cup and said, "Lao Ma, from a long-term perspective and from an overall perspective, in which region do you think we should increase our efforts in the future?"

"This," Lao Ma thought for a moment, then said firmly, "in the long run, I think it should be Africa."

"Although some parts of Africa have been turbulent, overall, if the total population of Africa exceeds 2 billion in the future, that will probably not be a problem,"

"In other aspects, such as infrastructure, if India is still equivalent to our level in the 1990s, Africa is even more lagging behind. This has also led to Africa's Internet penetration rate being currently the lowest in the world,"

"But it also means that as long as the situation in this area improves, the number of Internet users in Africa will increase at a rate we cannot imagine,"

"When it comes to our development in Africa," he glanced at Feng Yiping, "It seems that except for that follow-up visit, you rarely go there again?"

"Haha," Feng Yiping laughed, "Why didn't you go?"

Later he went there a few times, but mainly for vacation.

He does go to the interior of Africa, as well as to countries such as Palestine and Israel that are often in the news, but he has no choice but to do so. The older he gets, the less courageous he becomes.

Even though Cummins has long proposed that in order to integrate the supply chain, it should jointly or independently invest in related minerals in several African countries, he has not taken any action.

Not only was he worried about himself, he was also worried about the personal safety of his employees.

"So," he patted the old horse heavily on the shoulder, "I will leave this important task to you, comrade."

"I know, of course I will do all the dirty work," Lao Ma said with great self-knowledge, and then stood up excitedly, "Just wait and see!"

Looking up, there happened to be a plane, cutting through the night, flying into the sky with its head held high...